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The life of John James Audubon, the naturalist (1870)

Author: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851; Audubon, Lucy Green Bakewell, 1788-1874; Buchanan, Robert Williams, 1841-1901; Wilson, Jas. Grant; Inman, Henry, 1801-1846, ill; Hall, Henry Bryan, 1808-1884, engraver; Hough, A. L. (Alfred Lacey), d. 1925, former owner. DSI; Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978, former owner. DSI; Trow & Smith, printer
Subject: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851; Ornithologists; Natural history illustrators
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam
Language: English
Call number: 39088014775852
Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian
Book contributor: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: biodiversity; americana
Notes: Cullman Library (rare book)

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"The following pages are substantially the recently published work [Life and adventures of John James Audubon ... ed. ... by Robert Buchanan. London, 1868] reproduced with some additions, and the omission of several objectionable passages."

The copyright notice on the verso of the t.p. is dated 1868

'The Trow & Smith Book Manufacturing Company, 46, 48, 50 Greene Street N.Y."--Verso of t.p

The portrait frontispiece is signed: Henry Inman; H.B. Hall

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SCNHRB copy 39088014775852 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Alexander Wetmore, sixth Secretary, 1946-1953. With ms. ink inscription on front free endpaper: A. Wetmore, rec'd from Dr. Hough, 5/8/29; and on t.p.: A.L. Hough (possibly Alfred Lacey Hough, d. 1925, Burmese language teacher at University College London?)

SCNHRB copy has the publisher's gilt-stamped brown embossed cloth binding with colored paper onlays on the front cover, brown polished endpapers, and all edges gilt

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